Levide No. 1

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Scene Description: opening into the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: retable of 1662 by Johan Bartsch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - choir

Scene Description: with stalls and a monument above them, on the north wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: 'Epitafium' made of painted sandstone and dated to 1682

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - painting - detail

Scene Description: 'Passionsmästaren' paintings originally of the 15th century [restaured in 1902-3 and 1956-7]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - tower arch - painting

Scene Description: on the south side of the rower arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - tower arch - painting

Scene Description: St. Christopher

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2012 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00026LEV

Museum and Inventory Number: Gotlands Museum, Visby, Gotland

Church/Chapel: Levide kyrka

Church Location: Levide, 623 53 Hemse, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located about 5 km W of Fardhem

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Levide församling

Historical Region: Fardhems ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: [now at the Gotlands Museum, Visby]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [base only], Medieval / composite

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Byzantios

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. VII, hft. 4: 73, 74, 107) as the sandstone pedestal base, attributed to the Byzantios workshop and dated to the middle or the second half of the 12th century by Roosval; it has a central drain hole and is ornamented with the usual four heads (two human, one lion's and the other a monster's). [A later font, dated to the mid-17th century and painted in 1662, exists in this church: cf. Index entry for Levide No. 2] -- [NB: for all details and photographs of the old base cf. Index entry for OJA, at the Gotlands Museum]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.282167, 18.266472

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 16′ 55.8″ N, 18° 15′ 59.3″ E

UTM: 34V 335229 6352104

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (base only)

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: [missing]

Basin Interior Shape: [missing]

Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]

Height of Base: 46 cm

Notes on Measurements: Fåhraeus (1974: 37)

REFERENCES

Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974

Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990